HYPER-THREADING TECHNOLOGY
1. INTRODUCTION
This report describes the Hyper-Threading Technology architecture, and discusses the microarchitecture details of Intel's first implementation on the Intel Xeon processor family. For that reason, firstly, general processor microarchitecture and thread level parallelism will be explained. After that, hyper-threading technology architecture will be discussed in a detailed manner. Then, first implementation examples will be given. Also, some important components will be presented required for a hyper-threaded processor. After all, performace results of this new technology will conclude the report.
Hyper-Threading Technology brings the concept of simultaneous multi-threading to a general
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The Xeon line of processors from Intel are engineered for servers to outperform competitor CPUs. Intel included a full compliment of features that would go entirely unused in a desktop but vital to server performance. In a space with many options, Intel aims for Xeon to be best of type in both benchmark and practice.
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If large amounts of high-speed non-volatile memory could be integrated onto the CPU (Figure 1 2), the need for a hard drive (storage) and a motherboard could also be eliminated. This computer-on-chip concept can deliver > 1000x improvement in computation speed using a fraction of the power compared to the conventional computers.
In spite of the fact that multiprocessors have numerous favorable position it additionally have some detriment like complex in structure when contrasted with uni-processor framework.
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The objective of this lab is to be able to understand how the CPU functions work, as well as understanding machine and assembly language.
We implement XXX as a framework with both single core and multi-core versions in an objective-oriented language. A topology can be built by declaring the connections
Since the invention of the first computer, engineers have been conceptualizing and implementing ways to optimize system performance. The last 25 years have seen a rapid evolution of many of these concepts, particularly cache memory, virtual memory, pipelining, and reduced set instruction computing (RISC). Individual each one of these concepts has helped to increase speed and efficiency thus enhancing overall system performance. Most systems today make use of many, if not all of these concepts. Arguments can be made to support the importance of any one of these concepts over one
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4. Performance Comparison of Dual Core Processors Using Multiprogrammed and Multithreaded Benchmarks ............................................................................................... 31 4.1 Overview ........................................................................................................... 31 4.2 Methodology ..................................................................................................... 31 Multiprogrammed Workload Measurements .................................................... 33 4.3 4.4 Multithreaded Program Behavior ..................................................................... 36 5. 6. Related Work ............................................................................................................ 39 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 41